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Solar Impulse wants 1,000 climate change solutions
THE Solar Impulse Foundation has established a new alliance, which plans to find 1,000 profitable solutions to tackle climate change.
Type: News
THE paramount importance of good safety performance is a message we need to continue to hammer home to our chemical engineering students, and since my last article (The Chemical Engineer 899), I have been involved in a number of discussions on how we teach safety at Loughborough University.
Type: Feature
Malaysia speciality chemicals deal
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and German chemicals and energy company PCC have signed a shares sale and purchase agreement for PCG to acquire a 50% stake in PCC’s Malaysian subsidiary, PCC Oxyalkylates Malaysia (PCC-OM).
Type: News
US Chemical Safety Board to close this year
THE Trump administration plans to close the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (US CSB) this year, sparking fears its loss will erode industrial safety and cost lives.
Type: News
Adam Duckett on the need to engage with equality, diversity and inclusion
Type: Feature
New novel use of glycerol helps make renewable hydrogen and propane fuel gases
GLYCEROL, a naturally occurring alcohol made from the hydrolysis of fats and oils, is being used as a raw material by researchers at Aston University to make hydrogen gas and biopropane
Type: News
EU refuses call by auditor to update its "unrealistic" hydrogen targets
EFFORTS by the EU to establish a hydrogen market to decarbonise heavy industry have been criticised by the bloc’s auditor, which has called for a reality check on "unrealistic targets". The EU has denied the request.
Type: News
Stripping Ammonia in Anaerobic Digesters
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Type: Feature
UK urged to takes systems approach to help decarbonise dispersed manufacturers
WITH dispersed industrial sites producing around half of UK industry emissions, an energy systems think tank has urged the Government to take a whole systems approach and consider what role its selected industrial clusters can play in decarbonising the wider economy.
Type: News
The Cambo oil field could help decarbonise UK oil and gas production. So why are we not developing it?
Type: Feature
The Engineering Mindset Part 2: Complex or Complicated? What Defines A Complex System?
Using the petrochemicals industry, Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how a complexity-based approach provides a critically different perspective and insight that can be applied to pretty much any sector, market, or organisation
Type: Feature
As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share their process safety knowledge across other sectors
Type: Feature
Flixborough 50 Years On: Legislation has been Transformed, Organisations not so much
Trish Kerin speaks to safety consultant Andrew Hopkins to find out how the safety culture at Flixborough would meet today’s standards
Type: Feature
COP28 deal: a starting gun fired for the end of fossil fuels?
COUNTRIES have agreed at the COP28 climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels and triple renewable energy capacity. However, there are concerns about loopholes in the text, and a lack of finance for the massive scale-up of technology and adaptation required.
Type: News
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 3: Atoms for Peace
In 1953, Dwight D Eisenhower (1890–1969) began his US presidential term with a widely applauded “Atoms for Peace” address. Martin Pitt reflects on how that worked out
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett on the turbulent crucible in which IChemE was formed
Type: Feature
Chemical Engineering in the Kitchen
Visiting the home of the inventor of a novel, continuous process for juicing and straining. Amanda Jasi speaks to Nevin Stewart, inventor of Juice and Strain
Type: Feature
Rapid test identifies Covid-19 antibodies
A RAPID test has been developed which can detect Covid-19 antibodies within ten minutes and doesn’t require the use of a laboratory.
Type: News
Alexandra Meldrum reports on IChemE’s increased involvement in policy consultations
Type: Feature
Non-toxic substitute for lithium batteries found
Burning fuel-coated carbon nanotubes produce current
Type: News
